RAPID: Collaborative Research: Understanding At-Risk Adolescents' and Parents' Daily Experiences During COVID-19

虽然新冠肺炎疫情对社区和个人影响深远，但对高危青年的影响可能尤其普遍和明显。这个快速项目将研究高危青少年及其父母在新型冠状病毒大流行后的最初一段时间内如何体验新冠肺炎。这项研究将比较新冠肺炎爆发期间青少年的睡眠、社交技能、社会关系质量、压力、情绪、药物使用、心理健康症状、身体健康、心理社交发展、外化行为和犯罪行为。该项目还将研究青少年监禁是否会加剧新冠肺炎对青年结果的潜在影响。该项目将对高危(涉及司法、低社会保障)青少年进行纵向研究，以解决青少年-父母二人组如何应对新冠肺炎大流行并受到其影响。这项研究将使用多种方法，包括自我报告、附带报告、合作缓刑部门的官方记录、电子日记报告和动作图技术，以评估青少年和父母在应对新冠肺炎疫情时对各种结果的反应变化。这些发现将显示出应对高危青年大流行的身体和精神健康风险。此外，这项研究将为青少年拘留设施和缓刑部门在发生危机时提供最佳做法，以确保青少年继续接受重要的康复服务，同时维护青少年、法律行为者和社区成员的健康和安全。结果将有助于现有关于全球紧急状态下弱势青年群体的需求、风险和潜在保护因素的有限知识库。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

While the COVID-19 pandemic has far-reaching effects on communities and individuals, its impact on at-risk youth may be particularly pervasive and distinct. This RAPID project will study how at-risk adolescents and their parents experience COVID-19 in the initial time period following the novel coronavirus pandemic. The research will compare adolescents’ sleep, social skills, social relationship quality, stress, mood, substance use, mental health symptoms, physical health, psychosocial development, externalizing behavior, and delinquency across the COVID-19 outbreak. The project also will examine whether juvenile incarceration exacerbates the potential impact of COVID-19 on youth outcomes. The project will engage in a longitudinal study of at-risk (justice-involved, low-SES) adolescents to address how adolescent-parent dyads respond to and are affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. This research will use multiple methods, including self-report, collateral report, official records from the partnering department of probation, electronic daily diary reports, and actigraph technology, to assess changes in adolescents’ and parents’ functioning on a variety of outcomes in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The findings will evince physical and mental health risks in response to the pandemic among at-risk youth. As well, the research will provide best practices for juvenile detention facilities and departments of probation in times of crises to ensure that youth continue to receive important rehabilitative services while maintaining the health and safety of youth, legal actors, and community members. Results will contribute to the limited existing knowledge base on the needs, risks, and potential protective factors of a vulnerable group of youth during a global state of emergency.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.